Ellie Williams and the Weight of a Grief That Turned Into a Mission
How much of what we call justice is really just grief that hasn’t found anywhere else to go? That’s the … Read more
Kratos and the Weight of Trying to Become a Man Worth Following
Can a person who spent most of his life solving every problem with violence actually become someone safe to be … Read more
What Video Games Teach Us About Memory (And Why We Keep Rewriting It)
Memory is usually the subject fiction treats as fixed scenery — something a character simply has, mostly stable, occasionally jogged … Read more
What Video Games Teach Us About Ambition (And Why We Keep Building Past the Point of Comfort)
Ambition is a strange thing for a game to model, because most games are already, structurally, about wanting more — … Read more